“…Nidali, the rebellious daughter of an egyptian-greek mother and a Palestinian father, narrates her story from her childhood in Kuwait, her early teenage years in Egypt (to where she and her family fled the 1990 Iraqi invasion), to her family’s last flight to Texas. Nidali mixes humor with a loving and vibrant celebration of an eccentric middle-class family in the Arab world, and this perspective keeps her buoyant through the hardships she encounters: the humiliation of going through a checkpoint on a visit to her father’s home on the West Bank; the fights with her father, who wants her to become a famous professor and stay away from boys; the end of her childhood as Iraq invades Kuwait on her thirteenth birthday; and the scare she gives her family when she runs away from home. …”

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Tabla de Contenidos: “….); INTRODUCCIÓN; EL ESPACIO; LA HISTORIA POLÍTICA; LA CUESTIÓN DE TEXAS; LA ""LEYENDA NEGRA""; ECONOMÍA Y COMERCIO; CIUDADES GEMELAS; MOVIMIENTOS SOCIALES Y CULTURALES; EL TRABAJO MIGRATORIO; CONCLUSIONES; BIBLIOGRAFÍA; 2. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…What future for electric power sector -- Value of an integrated grid -- Microgrids: Finally finding their place -- Customer-centric view of electricity service -- The innovation platform enables the internet of things -- Role of utility and pricing in the transition -- Intermittency : it's the short-term that matters -- Retail competition, advanced metering investments, and product differentiation : evidence from Texas -- Rehabilitating retail electricity markets : pitfalls and opportunities -- Residential rate design and death spiral for electric utilities : efficiency and equity considerations -- Modeling the impacts of disruptive technologies and pricing on electricity consumption -- Decentralized reliability options : market based capacity arrangements -- Network pricing for the prosumer future : demand-based tariffs or locational marginal pricing? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Appendix D: Interview Questions Asked of Former Assistant Director of Environmental Health and Safety at University of Texas Southwestern (UTSW) Medical Center on HAZMAT Policies, Practices, and ProceduresAppendix E: Interview Questions to Faculty Senate and Safety Committee; Appendix F: Interview with Former Director at Research Think Tank; Appendix G: National Science Foundation Rankings; Bibliography; Back Cover…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The Kubala Washatko Architects -- Centro de Visitantes de Tim y Karen Hixon, Goverment Canyon (Helotes,Texas, Estados Unidos), Arq. Lake Flato Architects -- SOLTAG Energy Housing (Hørsholm, Dinamarca), Arq. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Conté: 5 EDITORIAL Helen Castle. 6 ABOUT THE GUEST-EDITOR Neil Spiller. 8 SPOTLIGHT Visual highlights of the issue. 14 INTRODUCTION Architectural Drawing: Grasping for the Fifth Dimension Neil Spiller. 20 All Night Long: The Architectural Jazz of the Texas Rangers Mark Morris. 28 Emerging Technologies and Drawings: The Futures of Images in Architectural Design Mark Garcia. 36 Two Sides of the Page: The Antifact and the Artefact Bryan Cantley. 44 New Malacovia Pascal Bronner. 50 AVATAR: Nothing is Impossible Neil Spiller. 56 A World Below Perry Kulper. 64 A Two-Speed Landscape: The Reforestation of the Thames Estuary Tom Noonan. 70 Drawing Time Nic Clear. 80 Looking and Drawing Peter Cook. 88 Augmented Landscapes and Delicate Machinery Mark Smout and Laura Allen. 94 Plug-In, Clip-On, Tune-Up: A Throwaway Architecture with Optional Extras Simon Herron. 102 London Short Stories: Drawing Narratives CJ Lim. 108 Dragons Adrift: The New Chinese Landscape Nancy Wolf. 112 The Poetics of the Island of Vessels Neil Spiller. 120 Bildungsroman Series: Architectural Daring for the 21st Century Dan Slavinsky. 124 Could Architectural Drawings Save Us From Philosophical Bankruptcy? …”

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